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GM: Jeff Bridich (since 2015)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.6
WAB — wins above budget
+1.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
87–75 (0.537)
record · made playoffs
+6M
surplus $M (value/$)
33.4
roster fWAR
$107.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nolan Arenado 26 arb 159 5.8 11.8 +7.6
Charlie Blackmon 30 FA-elig 159 5.5 7.3 +11.1
DJ LeMahieu 28 FA-elig 155 3.4 4.8 +6.6
Jon Gray 25 pre-arb 20 3.1 0.5 +9.9
Germán Márquez 22 pre-arb 29 2.4 0.5 +7.6
Kyle Freeland 24 – 35 2.0 0.5 +6.3
Trevor Story 24 pre-arb 145 1.9 0.5 +5.9
Jake McGee 30 FA-elig 62 1.5 5.9 -0.9
Antonio Senzatela 22 pre-arb 36 1.2 0.5 +3.7
Chris Rusin 30 arb 60 1.2 0.5 +3.6
Gerardo Parra 30 FA-elig 115 1.1 8.0 -4.3
Greg Holland 31 FA-elig 61 1.1 6.0 -2.3
Tyler Chatwood 27 FA-elig 35 1.0 4.4 -0.9
Pat Neshek↔ PHI 36 FA-elig 28 1.0 2.6 +0.8
Jeff Hoffman 24 pre-arb 23 0.9 0.3 +2.7
Scott Oberg 27 pre-arb 66 0.8 0.5 +2.3
Tyler Anderson 27 pre-arb 17 0.8 0.5 +2.2
Jonathan Lucroy↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 46 0.7 2.0 +0.3
Pat Valaika 24 pre-arb 110 0.7 0.5 +1.7
Mark Reynolds 33 FA-elig 148 0.6 1.5 +0.5
Chad Bettis 28 arb 9 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Carlos Estévez 24 pre-arb 35 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Raimel Tapia 23 pre-arb 70 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Mike Dunn 32 FA-elig 68 0.2 4.0 -3.4
Zac Rosscup↔ CHC 29 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Carlos González 31 FA-elig 136 0.0 20.0 -19.8
Shane Carle 25 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Chad Qualls 38 FA-elig 19 -0.0 3.8 -3.9
Jairo Díaz 26 arb 4 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
Tony Wolters 25 pre-arb 83 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Ryan McMahon 22 – 17 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Adam Ottavino 31 FA-elig 63 -0.1 2.1 -2.4
Dustin Garneau↔ OAK 29 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.3 -0.8
Mike Tauchman 26 – 31 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Stephen Cardullo 29 pre-arb 15 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Jordan Lyles↔ SDP 26 FA-elig 33 -0.3 2.8 -3.9
Cristhian Adames 25 arb 12 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Tom Murphy 26 pre-arb 12 -0.5 0.5 -2.1
Ryan Hanigan 36 FA-elig 33 -0.7 1.2 -3.5
Ian Desmond 31 FA-elig 95 -0.8 8.0 -10.7
Alexi Amarista 28 FA-elig 96 -1.0 1.1 -4.5

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR). Green = produced more value than paid (bargain); red = paid more than produced. Service: pre-arb (<3 yr) / arb (3–6) / FA-eligible (6+). Click headers to sort.

History: front-office performance & develop-vs-buy (1985–2024)

Trade ledger (realized WAR, all-time)

Best acquisitions
PlayerYearWAR for COL
Carlos González200824.7
Germán Márquez201619.1
Jorge De La Rosa200813.1
DJ LeMahieu201113.1
Pedro Astacio19978.3
Brian Fuentes20017.7
Rafael Betancourt20095.9
Tyler Chatwood20115.8
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Chone Figgins200122.2
Nolan Arenado202118.3
Andy Ashby199317.7
Mark Canha201410.3
Darryl Kile19999.7
Juan Pierre20029.4
Everth Cabrera20084.5
Ubaldo Jiménez20114.4
Rosternomics — quantifying front-office skill, attribution-clean. Follow @rosternomics on X. Decision-makers on record back to 1933; resource-controlled metrics (WAR & payroll) cover 1985–2026.
Data: FanGraphs (WAR), Baseball-Reference & the Chadwick Bureau register (rosters, IDs), the Lahman Database, Baseball America prospect rankings (via The Baseball Cube), and public payroll records. Transaction and trade data was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Executive birth/death data via Wikidata (CC0); bios are original. Emoji graphics by OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
All figures are franchise-level outcomes credited to the decision-maker in the acquisition year — not solely attributable to one executive.